Mayhem/Safeguard special contacts: can we make them equal?

[Razor Cure]

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There are (for those who don't know) special contacts in SteelC and PortO, from which you can get any safeguard or mayhem mission, after earning either the Hero or Villain slayer badge. Which IS totally awesome!

 

However..

The earning of said badge and actually running those missions is kinda unbalanced, towards the Hero side (shock horror, I know).

Now, that could be because Redside has an accolade tier to the mayhem expo badges (and another tier to defeats within mayhems), so there needs to be some element of 'work' involved. I will buy that.

 

But then..WHY give us a way to get these contacts anyway?

Obviously because it was a complete pain to accidently miss a Mayhem mission, and be unable (till you find someone with the mission) to get the accolade.

 

Back to earning the badge for teh conact..25 Hero or Villain (NPC) kills. Seems legit.

 

Till you realise how the amount of AVs in content is way way beyond the amount of Heroes. Content-wise, Blueside has basically no enemy heroes to go up against (since you are a hero yourself), meaning you will be killing AVs (even if you want to level of blueside then change aligment) while redside..also has a larger balance of AVs to kill. Which..does not help one bit! I think all the StrikeForces are fighting Archvills (maybe besides Numi in Barracuda) and only a few arcs in GV have a decent amount of Heroes to beat up.

Another peeve..the 'heroes' in the 1st sig story arc do NOT count for HeroSlayer..and yet the blueside Villains do count for Villain Slayer. Because of course they do.

 

Onto the missions themselves. AGain, it is awesome to be able to do them this way. But WHY can't we just have the list of 8 missions ALL the time to pick from? WHy does it randomly offer us just one specific one? Sure, you can drop these, and repick..but again..why? The entire point of these contacts is to make getting the missions easier..but then add (or it was just a hiccup in the old coding, I'll buy that) a mechanic that makes the process a bit longer!

 

Again on the missions.

Blueside guy stands RIGHT by the truck, leading to teh SC safeguard. And EVERY SINGLE other safeguard you get from him. They are all in that truck. You know, for speed and convenience. 10/10.

Redside. Oh look, the contact is up in a nook above the sub, that the first PO Mayhem resides in. Not a huge deal...but still..why wasn't he put on the docks? And of course the same utterly stupid random 'set' mission, instead of the simple list of 8 choices. Oh and, wait and see WHERE each mission is. Cause it sure as hell is not like blueside, and kindly placed all in the same spot, right next to you. Because running across a zone 8 times is a great way to make something added to speed up a task, take longer.

 

Sarcasm aside.

 

Make Sig Arc 'heroes' count for the Hero Slayer Badge.

Move the redside to the docks.

Make every single mayhem door be IN the sub.

Get rid of that stupid random set mission option.

 

Edited January 8, 2020 by Razor Cure

[siolfir]

11 hours ago, Razor Cure said:

I think all the StrikeForces are fighting Archvills

Pretty sure you're overlooking the LRSF.

[Sniktch]

The 'random set mission' can be cleared off by selecting another dialog option; I had no issues getting the big list to pop back up with 1-2 clicks.  Aside that, your suggestions/complaints are wholly valid; as a fun fact, in the Mortimer Kal SF, Infernal counts, Numina doesn't if you soul-trap her, and none of the Midnighters do.  Most alignment missions also feature Villain-flagged targets instead of Hero-flagged targets.  Yes, it's possible to get, it's just a lot less 'falls in your lap' than blueside.  Par for the course, considering both +max END Accolades for redside are still predicate on giving PvP permission, whereas none of the blueside ones are.

[Razor Cure]

Oh yeah, I know its easy to get around the single mission options..but it should not even happen!

8 hours ago, Sniktch said:

'falls in your lap'

Would be a good blueside motto.